[TUHS] History of non-Bell C compilers?

[Tom Lyon]

I know of Plauger as a Kernighan co-author, so I did a search on AbeBooks
and found - a lot of science fiction!  Must investigate.

On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 3:27 PM Luther Johnson <luther.johnson at makerlisp.com>
wrote:

> Oops, misspelled Mr. Plauger's name, pardon me, that's "P.J. Plauger".
>
> On 03/07/2024 04:24 PM, Luther Johnson wrote:
> > I don't have any personal tales, but I remember that P.J. Plaugher's
> > company, "Whitesmiths", C compiler was an early, and influential,
> > non-AT&T C compiler.
> >
> > On 03/07/2024 04:14 PM, Tom Lyon wrote:
> >> For no good reason, I've been wondering about the early history of C
> >> compilers that were not derived from Ritchie, Johnson, and Snyder at
> >> Bell.  Especially for x86. Anyone have tales?
> >> Were any of those compilers ever used to port UNIX?
> >
>
>
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